Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-13

and deposit .@-:-rn in their barracks,
when they are at liberty to spend the
rest of the day as they please. The
taverns are crowded. and the amount
Of brandy swallowed is incalculable.
Incalculable also the number Ct
"drunks'' met with after dark on the
streets. For these there are special
provisions. Each of the posts in the
city and on the rock is provided with a
kind of sentry-box, and when red
coat too much under the influence Of
drink passes in sight of one of these
posts the officer or sub-ofiicer calls two
of his men, who lay hold of kim with
out violence and guide his staggering
steps to the box where he is allowed tn
sleep off the fumes of his brandy until
morning. The next day there are dis
the guard-house, and then every thing
resumes its usual course. Brandy Is
the weakness Of tho English, and 1t
greatly increases the mortality Of the
garrison. All that succumb die of the
same disease, kind of cerebral fever
that the English call rock fever, but
that the natives correctly call brandy
fever
Every thing on this rock partakes Of
the military. One is awakened by the
sound of cannon each morning az soon
as the rising Of the sungives the signal
Tor thu opening Of tho greet gate. The
same cannon at sunset signals its clos
ing. These two firings Of a gun are
always regular, but they are not the
only oaes tina, are heard In the course
Of a day or night, for everything that
happens out of the usual course,
whether on the rock or around the
rock. is signaled by cannon. This
cannon, which became inevitably a
companion of the existence of every
one living on the rock, is in a battery
middle Of its length. at the foot Of a
mast from which flies signal flag tina,
whenever the gun Is fired, tells what IL
is fired for. The most frequently it is
to warn the Spanish coast-guard out of
English waters. Sometimes 1t Is fire
the signal indicates its location
Precautior~ are so well taken,
aud the pumps so expeditiously
handled, that fire is very speedily
extinguished. Sometimes it is the
rock itself that burns. Though it is
bare, SO to speak, a vegetation grows
in the spring that is soon parched by
the sun. for from April to November it
never rains in Gibraltar. Once or twice
during the summer this growth takes
fire probably through the carelessness
of smokers. When this occurs the ex-
citement is great, for the rock is scat
tered over with powder magazines. and
water in large quantities. except at the
| base of the rock, is hard to get. The
entire garrison is sometimes employed
in fighting these fires for forty-eight
hours.
Gibraltar, besides its garrison OF
| 1000, has 1900 inhabitants. For a
| fortress of such small extent this
population is embarrassing. The
civilians are everywhere sacrificed to
the military. In the village and on the
rock the best places are occupied by
barracks. Every thing that serve the
needs Of defense, the health and COM
fort of the troops, is admirably looked
after. From top to bottom the rock is
furrowed with excellent roads, and in
the city the streets are marvellous
ly cleaned and well kept The
sewerage system is perfect, and ga:
and water abound everywhere. Blu
The civil population is shut up in a very
restricted space, most of the houses art
novels, whose existence is subject t.
the caprice of the military, for, above
all, nothing must interfere with tn,
firing of the batteries. Not new
building has been constructed fol
twenty years, for all the available lane
was built on long ago. These fiftcer
thousand inhabitants, born on the rocl
md called by the English crock scor
pions," are, according to law, subject;
Of the British Government, as born OF
English soil. They have the right t.
live where they were born. No on,
can expel them, but everything is done
to fetter the development of the civi
population, and. above all, to preven
the formation of a foreign colony. A
foreigner can enter Gibraltar only will
permit valid for twenty-four hours
At the holders request it may be ex
tended three days, and he ca,
not remain longer than that TIM
without a reliable guarantol
known to the military authorities
With such guarantor his permit ma,
be renewed every three months. the
guarantor being liable to fine of five
hundred francs and three months i'm
prisonmont If the person for whom hi
has vouched violates any of the rule
imposed on foreigners. However. for.
eigners are numerous, for nearly al
he servants employed at Gibraltar III,
from Spain. They are not allowed t,
bear any offspring on the rock, and
woman with child is heartlessly ex
peeled. A male inhabitant of the rocl
may marry foreign woman, VIII,
thus acquires the right to I've there
but British woman that marries
foreigner is expelled with her husban,
the day of her marriage. When thi
law was first put into force there wer
a number of foreigners at Gibraltar VIII
had been allowed to live there withou
permit for many years. All of then
had to submit to the rule requiring
permit every three months, and al